Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-15


below. The execution is to take place
November 11th, between 8 and a
o'clock.
THE OPINION
Was written by Judge Magruder, OF
the Chicago district, and is an able
exposition of law and previous inter,
pretations thereof by eminent jurists
in this country as well as of the courts
bearing upon alleged and perhaps real
errors in this record. In this work he
was ably helped by each of the other
distinguished judges who made him
spokesman and through him expressed
unanimous decision. The opinion
contains about 56,0 900 words.
GENERAL AGREEMENT.
Judge Sheldon announced that he
concurred in the opinion.
Judge Mulkey said: "While l agree
in the opinion and also the general
views of the court, l do not wish to be
understood as holding that the record
is free from error, but none of the
errors complained of, in my opinion
were of such serious character as re.
quired a reversal of judgment.
DATE OF THE EXECUTIONS.
Sheldon said: "The court orders
that the sentence by the Superior
Court of Cook county, of defendants
August Spies, Samuel Fielden, r.
Parsons, Adolph Fischer, Engel and
Louis Lingg, be carried into effect on
the 11th day of November next, be.
tween 8 o'clock in the forenoon and 4
in the afternoon of that day." The
judgment of the court was unanimous
DETAILS OE THE DECISION.
In giving the opinion on the case
and it's origin Judge Magruder, speak.
ing ably for himself ann the courts
says in substance:
About the 1st of May, 1886, the
workingmen of Chicago and other in.
dustrial centers were generally worked
upon by outside influence and greatly
excited, especially by eight-houl
movements. In the midst Of this ex-
element a meeting was held on May
8, 1886. at the Haymarket and it was
addressed by the defendants Spies
Parsons and Fielden, and while the
latter was making his closing speech
several companies of policemen, mum
bering $50 men, marched into the
crowd from the station on Desplaines
street and ordered the meeting
stopped. AS soon as the order was
given some one threw bomb
THEIR PREVIOUS CONNECTION.
The plaintiffs in error are charged
with being accessories before the fact
There are sixty-eight counts in the in
dictment, and these charge eight de-
PENDANTS with being present and
abetting. If the defendants advised
and encouraged, aided or abetted in
the killing of the policemen, they are
as guilty as if they had taken these
mems life in their own hands. If any
of them stood by and saw, or aided
the throwing of the fatal boom, each
of the aiders and abettors is as guilty
as the one who did the fatal deed.
WHAT WERE THEIR INTENTIONS?
Liz uuOStiOHo DICSClltCu are Ilti
the defendants have a common pur-
pose or design to murder these police
did they combine for that purpose
and was the result of such combina-
ton the result OF death to the men,
or were they the guardians of the
law? The answer is who made the
bombs that killed Deggen? Witness
says, 81 saw the bomb and know that
it was q round bomb"
LINGG WAS THE MAN.
The court follows in a description OF
the various bombs in use or known to
the Anarchists and concluding that
the most deadly OF them were made
by Louis Lingg, and judging from
what had been found in his possession
and his acquaintance with VIM. Sell
Tiger, who was a German carpenter
and who seemed to be expert in bomb
making, they, in March, 1886, brought
the dynamite.
DAMNATORY EVIDENCE.
The evidence then shows that these
two men on the Friday before the
Haymarket meeting. met and Lingg
brought to Seliger's house a large
wooden box. 1t contained dynamite,
and he (Lingg) spent that evening fill
ing the dynamite into gas-plpe, and
he was also assisted by number Of
persons, Seliger, being among them.
Upwards of fifty bombs were finished
that afternoon, and the business ap-
pears to have been continued till the
very evening OF the Haymarket meet
ing.
CIRCUMSTANTIAL PROOF.
Three of the four bombs were
examined, and the pieces taken
from Deggan's body and those found
at Lingg's after his arrest, run the
same in composition. Upon Lingg's
guilt, the court asks the question, why
did Lingg make the bomb that killed
Deggan? To answer this, it becomes
necessary to examine the character OF
the associations with which Lingg, the
defendant, were connected, and its
aim. The object of its platform was
published by certain bureau of infor-
nation called the Alarm and Arbiter
Zeitung.
THE COMMUNISTS THEORY.
Among the extracts are peculiar
ideas of the Communistic abolishment
of titles of land and a sort of free do
main which is far beyond or ages in
the rear of modern civilization. In
some OF these articles charge is
made that the state, churchs, schools,
and the press are in the pay and un-
der the sway of capitalists and that
laborers must overthrow these pow
ers by physical strength. 1t is ad-
mitted and even positively asserted
that such a thing as the right of prop
erty is not only myth, but great
wrong to those who by laziness and
other faults have never earned prop.
erty or by their want OF thrift cannot
keep such as they may have had
This association, as Judge Magrudel
expressed it, subverts all law.